(07 Jan 2015, 9:38 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Wish I was born in that generation...
Nowadays, all I could do to match that would be a ride on the X22, filled with slutty schoolgirls trying to get nailed, before having a look in Game - a Gregg's or Subway - then an X24 home...both deckers, no mention of a Leyland National...I vaguely remember one or two lucky rides when I was only about three or four, absolutely brilliant.
Just the way things change. I'm lucky enough to have ridden some fantastic buses in service, but a bit gutted I didn't start photographing at yours & Tom's age. Imagine what my flickr would look like if I had!
(07 Jan 2015, 9:40 pm)Andreos1 wrote Racking my brains and genuinely can't remember which shops were there.
Can't even remember a Chinese being there.
The 183 was always a Metrobus or Atlantean whenever I used it. Upstairs, at the front going down Whitehall Road...
There were only three units on the back wall. Pretty sure it was just the games shop, the Chinese, and a bookies on the end.
183 was always an odd allocation. Tended to be a single decker from what I remember, mainly a National or Delta. X88 was always a decker though, and I think I can recall an Atlantean on there.